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" Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action,... "
Johnson's Life of Milton, with intr. and notes by F. Ryland - Página 10
por Samuel Johnson - 1894
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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Volumen4

Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 464 páginas
...and a false charge too injurious to be neglected. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says he, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." It is not true that Milton had made " great promises," or any promises at all. But, if he had made...
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OBITER DICTA

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 páginas
...tells us that we ought not to allow our veneration for Milton to rob us of a joke at the expense of a man ' who hastens home because his countrymen are...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school;' but that this observation was dictated by the good Doctor's spleen is made plain by his immediately...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 páginas
...and admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...
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Macaulay's Essays on Milton and Addison

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 páginas
...and admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...
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Macaulay's Essay on Milton

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 páginas
...and admiration. But listen to the Tory Doctor. " Let not our veneration for Milton," says Johnson, " forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on...of action vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding school." Again, Milton's pamphlets doubtless were written in a savage tone. No editorial contests...
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The Heart of Oak Books, Volumen6

Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 páginas
...that he might avoid the noise of the street. Here he received more boys, to be boarded and instructed. Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapors away his patriotism in a private boarding-school. This is the period of his life from which...
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Tractate of Education

John Milton - 1895 - 120 páginas
...Italian Catholicism or Italian morals. Dr. Johnson, in his " Life of Milton," cannot refrain from looking "with some degree of merriment on great promises and...away his patriotism in a private boarding-school." The fair comment on this is that Milton made no great promises, that he never seems to have intended...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volumen17

John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 548 páginas
...received into his house to share in his instructions. Upon this incident Johnson sneeringly remarks: " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some merriment on great promises and small performances ; on the man who hastens home because his countrymen...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volumen17

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 564 páginas
...received into his house to share in his instructions. Upon this incident Johnson sneeringly remarks: " Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some merriment on ^reat promises and small performances; on the man who hastens home because his countrymen...
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Macaulay's Essay on Milton

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 páginas
...hearing of the differences between the king and parliament, he thought it proper to hasten home.... Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look...great promises and small performance, on the man who hastened home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene...
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